The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 501, 1888, U. of Illinois Press

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BOSTON UNITARIAN CLUB SPEECH 1888 located in the ''Black Belt'' of Alabama, $400 was given at one collection for the support of this institution we find additional cause for hope. Perhaps nothing will illustrate the change of Southern sentiment toward the Negro more than the following editorial in a leading Alabama paper in condemnation of the recent outrage at Carrotton,~ Mississippi, and in connection with this it is to be remembered that the Southern press till within a few years has either half applauded such crimes or by silence shown acquiescence in them. The class of men and women who have been going out for the last twelve or fifteen years from Fisk, Atlanta, Straight, TalIadega, and various other Southern institutions, have in many cases bought themselves lots of land in town or small farms in the country and erected on them neat, substantial cottages that are not only homes for themseives but object lessons and centers of light for the surrounding community. Inspired to a large degree by such examples as these, the colored people in the city of Montgomery alone own $500,000 worth of property in the shape of nicely built unpretentious homes. This speaks pretty well for those who twenty-one years ago did not own themselves. What Seventy Dollars has done at Hampton, a larger or smaller sum has done at other Negro schools. One of these young men helped in this way, went into the city of Montgomery, Alabama as a physician.2 He was the first to professionally enter the ax-confederate capitol. When his white brother physicians found out by a six day's examination that he had as one of them said, that he had brains enough to pass a better examination than many whites had passed; they gave him a hearty welcome and offered their services to aid him in consuItation or in any other way possible and they are standing manfully up to their promise, notwithstanding the fact that the colored doctor gets more practice than any one white physician in the city. Thus the manly, common sense bearing, and almost unparalleled business success of this young man, has forever broken down in that city all barriers that might have prevented a colored man's succeeding in the medical profession. Another young man has done for the legal profession in that city what this one has done for the medical. Ever since freedom it has been the practice of Southern railroads to crowd colored women and men, no matter how neatly or how poorly SO!